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To loose a friend is painful indeed. However, when it's somebody that has been there to help hundreds he!! thousands, with correct knowledge and a quick joke, that's worse.

Some folks will hear a man talk about a friend on a forum, and ask how you can call someone you have never met a friend. I will tell you how.

When you talk to someone every day, and share an exchange of ideas and share knowledge, and help each other, you do get to know them. You know their humor, their strengths, their weaknesses, their battles, and dare I say it, their souls.

I have friends on another forum, that I know only from talking online, and a couple phone calls. It would hurt me deeply to loose anyone of them.

IMHO meeting, and talking to people that you have never seen, gives one a sense of freedom, and a feeling of comfort that wouldn't be there if you met that same person face to face first.

As I said, Rich has already helped hundreds or thousands of people on the web, and will continue to do so from the great track in the sky forever. Up there, your bike is always in tune, the tank never runs dry, and torque springs don't fade with heat. Oh, they still sell two strokes too!!!!

He is cruising a never ending highway, with family and friends, and it never rains. Everyday is a perfect day to ride, and he is watching over all of his friends.


I never got a chance to chat with him, but I can tell by your kind words that he was a great man, and will be tremendously missed. I feel for everyone who is pained by his passing. From reading the posts if his that I have come across, he would want you all to continue to help others, and keep riding.


R.I.P.AND GOD BLESS YOU RICH CARMAN


Chris

Check the float height.

The run for a while sit for a while problem in your first posts, sounds very familiar to me. My 250 four stroke did the same dang thing for a while last year. It turned out to be the battery was bad, and not charging correctly. I have a DC cdi, and the charging system was out of whack, so the engine would just run out if available juice and die. Then after sitting for about ten or fifteen minutes would fire right up and go for a few more miles. A new battery fixed that issue for me. As I said, maybe not be the same issue, but just throwing it out there.............

Alleyoop, that was a variators weight for a 1e40qmb as a comparison for some friends at 49ccscoot.com

Figured I would share a bit of my nightmare.

www.dropbox.com/sc/hh19h1qmdyemab2/AABfULVuwPMCsA5opUUeoZlBa

Check out the butt load of heavy grease in there. I cleaned it all out, put in new grease seals, and a very little bit of grease in the boss, and dusted the rollers,ramps,ramp plate and the guides, with graphite powder.

I had to cut the dang nut off. But I finally did get it off. I never pulled the belt out of the vari, cuz I wanted to see what was going on in there, without me causing all of the rollers to shift.

When I did get it out, once the back plate was off, I could see one stupid a$$ roller that most certainly did shift out of track. No big surprise, considering the amount of friggin axle grease that was inside the ramp plates. I would live to meet the man that did that, so I could kick him in the teeth. I have been cleaning this thing for over an hour, and still haven't got all the grease out.

I took pics of most of the process, if there is any intrest, I will post links.

I figured as much.

Thank you for the link. I appreciate your help.

Impact ( off brand ) + air compressor @full pressure ( the things as old as me, the pres. guage is all hazed up ) and NODDA. The impact and compressor unit have never let me down before. They belong to my uncle, but he takes great care of all of his tools, and I have used them several times. The compressor uses a 3hp electric (220) motor and has a four foot long by about a foot and a half around tank. I am not positive on the force of the gun, but am sure it's over two hundred pounds.

With the locker tool braced against the floor, I can lift the bike with a breaker bar. And that's not straight up, but up and forward. These dmn things aren't reversed threads are they?? I didn't think so, but at this point, nothing would surprise me. I might have to wind up cutting the dmn thing off. Idk.

Any help would be great. I have tried everything I can think of. Penetrating oil, impact wrench, breaker bar, ratchet and pipe, heat, what else is there??? Are these cranks threaded with a common thread that would make it easy for me to replace this nut from the local hardware store?